![]() When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. ![]() In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house-they build one. ![]()
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Despite thinking they were too old for a child, and years of trying, they are blessed with Gifty’s brother, Nana. Gifty’s parents meet in Kumasi, Ghana, and marry there. Gifty’s central childhood narrative is interspersed with details of events from the present and from Gifty’s time at college and graduate school. The text does not always tell this story in a linear or chronological fashion. She attempts to understand what has brought them to this point, and if there is any hope of redemption from it. Her mother’s arrival and awful state lead Gifty to re-examine the story of her childhood and family life. When the pastor from her hometown in Alabama calls to say Gifty’s mother is depressed again, Gifty invites her mother to stay with her. Gifty is a final-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University in California. ![]() ![]() I’m hopeful we can pull this off, but I’m not delusional. Our mission: Retrieve vital intel buried somewhere deep behind enemy lines – intel we’re going to use for one hell of a world-wide counterattack. ![]() ![]() Now, the girls and I are shooting across a war-torn landscape in our Black Hawk, headed for what’s left of Reston, Virginia. It’s been seven days since the demons invaded seven days since they set the world on fire and put humanity on a fast track to extinction. This is Captain Isaac Williams, Force-Recon, signing off. Standby for the next transmission at 0300 hours. Once the three of us are clear, we’re going to put together a team to go after high-priority targets so we can save our planet and end this war once and for all.ĭetails to follow. And by we, I mean myself and another girl I met – a girl who’s literally out of this world. The place looks grim, but I’m not about to stop searching for the angel who saved my life. Bodies even more so.Īfter some intense fighting, we’ve reached the hospital where she worked. Fast-forward to Armageddon: Demons are everywhere. That’s what landed me in Sophie’s operating room after a black op went to hell.Īfter I bled out, she “volunteered” me for Project Angel, a top-secret program determined to revive KIAs with alien tech. ![]() Apocalypse Girls, Books 1-2 by Lucas Webber ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, "the Prince of Intuition," tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, "the Apostle of Proof." Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!Ī moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge University and revolutionized mathematics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither Brittany nor Alex is prepared for the most surprising chemical reaction of all-love. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more. ![]() So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for-her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. ![]() When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created perfect life is about to unravel before her eyes. and when two polar opposites meet, the results are bound to be explosive. 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Ethan Kross and I Discuss How to Harness the Chatter in Our Head and… In this episode, Ethan and Eric talk about his book, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness It.īut wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. In addition to countless television appearances, Ethan’s research has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many others. He is an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and the Ross School of Business and also the Director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. ![]() ![]() Through his eyes, the world appears in shades of gray. He had been born a biologically compromised human, unable to see in color, as the result of a rare genetic condition called achromatopsia. 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